ParaView is an open source tool for display and analysis of large scale scientific data sets. This video teaches new users how to use ParaView to visualize their data. In the video we demonstrate how to use the different parts of ParaView's user interface, show where to go to find further…

In this video we demonstrate how to run ParaView scalably with the Microsoft HPC Server. We describe the requirements for accessing, processing and rendering your data in parallel and demonstrate parallel visualization with a challenging meterological data set. We explain our pipeline which first…

A high level synopsis of Microsoft's Technical Computing offerings is presented by Ryan Waite, General Manager for High Performance Computing. The sheer size of generated data is a key driver in today's computational ecosphere. By the end of 2010, over 1.2 zetabyte of data will have been…

Kathy Palmer, Lead Program Manager of the HPC Team, presents the management and monitoring enhancements released with R2. The notion of personal supercomputing is a core operational paradigm that is rapidly evolving in the numerical computing ecosphere. Various visualization aids, such as heat…

Part Two explores cluster management and demonstrates how major administrative tasks are performed from a single integrated console: Configuration & Deployment, Monitoring, Node Management, Job Management, Reporting, and Diagnostics.

Rae Wang, Senior Program Manager on the Windows HPC Team enumerates the diagnostics and reporting features available in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Microsoft designed comprehensive diagnostics to assist with granular troubleshooting, empowering administrators, ISVs, and IHVs to address failures. …

Microsoft Excel has become an indispensible calculation, prototyping, and simulation tool that handles complex multi-variable models. A fictitious case study is described where the customer, an insurance underwriter, explores over one trillion scenarios to optimize investments that hedge its…

Eric Lantz, Program Manager with the Windows HPC Computing Team outlines some tools that can be used to optimize HPC Cluster performance. Three usage patterns are considered: Data Parallel, Message Passing (MPI), and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). The biggest gains can be made in Networking…

Matt Blythe, Product Manager with the Microsoft Technical Computing team, offers an introduction to Dual-Boot "Hybrid" Clusters that allow Windows HPC and Linux HPC to exist on the same hardware. A key advantage of this approach is simplified integration into existing Linux-centric IT…